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    Derek Green

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    I'd rather die wandering than die wondering. Read more of my travel escapades at: theescapegoat.com

    Debunking the ‘I’ve worked hard’ myth

    Challenging the notion of 'working hard' for wealth. Learn why the 'worked hard' narrative overlooks privilege and contributes to societal inequality.

    Thank you Mr McGann! 

    Years ago, while still seduced by the empty promises of self-help books, wedged somewhere between trying to identify the 'toxic people' in my life and learning to 'fully maximise my potential', I read about the therapeutic value of writing thank you letters. Being pig-headed and slightly arrogant as I was (probably why I was given that particular book in the first place), I couldn't immediately think of anyone to thank; after all, I was a self-made man who’d done it all on his own, and worked super-hard, right? 

    Public, private and the broadening grey chasm in Australia’s medical system

    A sad, frustrating tale of a layman navigating the medical system in search of the truth.

    Don’t let the billionaires distract you from the inconvenient truth

    Solving life’s problems – growing inequality, relentless corporate profiteering, and environmental ruin – is, as always, individual action.

    TIME TO SEPARATE CAPITALISM FROM WHATEVER THIS IS

    Yet whenever capitalism is criticised, the right-wing media gets defensive and the propaganda machine goes into overdrive